Members of the Class of 2010 will be scattered throughout all of Penn's college houses this year.
That may not be the case for next year's freshmen, however.
Starting in September of 2007, freshmen are expected to be grouped in "clusters" even in college houses where they do not make up the majority of occupants.
The vast majority of first-year students are housed in the Quadrangle college houses and in Hill College House.
For example, 71 percent of Fisher-Hassenfeld's residents are freshmen this school year. Freshmen make up an even larger portion of Hill House's residents, at almost 93 percent.
Smaller groups of freshmen fill the other college houses. The occupants of the high rises, for example, generally range between 9 and 14 percent freshman. In these houses, the freshmen are not always grouped together and often find themselves surrounded by upperclassmen.
But University administrators now have a plan for what they call "orphaned" freshmen -those housed without peers in their year.
The plan grew out of concerns that these students "are not part of an integrated freshman community," Provost Ron Daniels said when the plan was announced in May.
